Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,568 6,271 6,834
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.41% 22.51% 20.83%
As % of the General category 32.86% 35.10% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,327 4,200 4,473
10th Percentile £360 £347 £365
25th Percentile £450 £420 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.75%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £794 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 98 117
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £14.80
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.91 £23.82
Median hourly rate £43.96 £28.53 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.11% -18.50% +36.13%
75th Percentile - £61.06 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.12 £80.75 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £28.53 £33.00
% change year-on-year +54.11% -13.56% +28.35%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 26,071 17,868 19,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.02% 64.15% 58.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,297 11,335 11,586
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,287 1,027 933
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.86 £16.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £25.15 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year +21.27% -35.26% +41.27%
75th Percentile £57.00 £45.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.79 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.30% -28.14% +27.27%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 25 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,194 £592 -1.33% 11,393
North of England 0 1,335 £514 +9.89% 1,861
South East -1 741 £500 -2.72% 2,021
North West -1 640 £503 +11.78% 1,031
Yorkshire 0 616 £525 +5.00% 628
Midlands -3 603 £507 +6.74% 1,121
West Midlands -2 452 £518 -0.43% 687
South West -5 354 £525 -4.55% 893
East of England +3 204 £553 -3.91% 594
East Midlands -2 148 £500 +19.05% 432
North East -7 72 £538 +22.51% 214
South Coast - 1 £450 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 289 (3.37%) Confluence
2 236 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 82 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 59 (0.69%) Apache
6 42 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.35%) CMS
8 24 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 24 (0.28%) SAS
9 16 (0.19%) Camunda
10 15 (0.18%) IIS
10 15 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.12%) CICS
12 8 (0.093%) Ethereum
13 6 (0.070%) Appian
13 6 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.070%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.058%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.058%) WordPress
Applications
1 472 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 190 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 177 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 126 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 72 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 53 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.093%) Trello
9 7 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.082%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.047%) Sketch
10 4 (0.047%) Windchill
11 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.035%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.035%) Notion
11 3 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 330 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 111 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
3 101 (1.18%) NetSuite
4 94 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
5 78 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
6 72 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
7 60 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
8 59 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
9 45 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
10 42 (0.49%) Workday HCM
11 41 (0.48%) SAP FI
12 39 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 33 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
13 33 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
14 32 (0.37%) Aladdin
15 29 (0.34%) SAP CO
16 24 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
16 24 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
16 24 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
17 23 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,391 (16.23%) Azure
2 970 (11.32%) AWS
3 589 (6.87%) Power Platform
4 487 (5.68%) GCP
5 306 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 288 (3.36%) GitHub
6 288 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
7 281 (3.28%) SaaS
8 216 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
9 214 (2.50%) Entra ID
10 196 (2.29%) Snowflake
11 141 (1.65%) Serverless
12 124 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
13 121 (1.41%) Power Automate
14 119 (1.39%) dbt
15 116 (1.35%) Amazon S3
16 107 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
17 99 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
17 99 (1.16%) OCI
18 94 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 160 (1.87%) Firewall
2 141 (1.65%) Network Security
3 100 (1.17%) VPN
4 77 (0.90%) DNS
5 51 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 48 (0.56%) DHCP
7 47 (0.55%) WAN
8 43 (0.50%) BGP
9 37 (0.43%) SSL
10 32 (0.37%) VLAN
11 31 (0.36%) Multicast
12 29 (0.34%) Wireless
13 26 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
14 25 (0.29%) LAN
15 24 (0.28%) OSPF
16 23 (0.27%) SAN
17 21 (0.25%) HTTP
17 21 (0.25%) Internet
18 15 (0.18%) Broadband
19 14 (0.16%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 476 (5.56%) Power BI
2 250 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 231 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 165 (1.93%) Metadata
5 146 (1.70%) Relational Database
6 122 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
7 114 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 106 (1.24%) Tableau
9 79 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 70 (0.82%) BigQuery
11 66 (0.77%) Oracle Database
12 62 (0.72%) MongoDB
13 53 (0.62%) Power Query
14 49 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
15 47 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
16 46 (0.54%) Delta Lake
17 40 (0.47%) Big Data
18 35 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
19 34 (0.40%) RDBMS
20 33 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 572 (6.68%) JIRA
2 268 (3.13%) Git
3 152 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 101 (1.18%) GitLab
5 61 (0.71%) Selenium
6 47 (0.55%) JUnit
7 35 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 34 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 33 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.37%) Claude Code
11 31 (0.36%) Maven
12 30 (0.35%) REST Assured
13 29 (0.34%) Visual Studio
14 27 (0.32%) Gradle
15 23 (0.27%) Cypress.io
15 23 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
16 22 (0.26%) ERwin
16 22 (0.26%) Postman
17 18 (0.21%) Mockito
17 18 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 2,689 (31.38%) Social Skills
2 1,855 (21.65%) Banking
3 1,258 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
4 444 (5.18%) Public Sector
5 431 (5.03%) Legal
6 372 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
7 337 (3.93%) Investment Banking
7 337 (3.93%) Retail
8 312 (3.64%) Front Office
9 311 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
10 285 (3.33%) Financial Institution
11 182 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 177 (2.07%) Manufacturing
13 174 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
14 164 (1.91%) Marketing
15 155 (1.81%) General Ledger
16 153 (1.79%) Billing
17 142 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
18 132 (1.54%) Local Government
19 131 (1.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,217 (14.20%) Analyst
2 989 (11.54%) Senior
3 869 (10.14%) Lead
4 864 (10.08%) Developer
5 739 (8.63%) Architect
6 616 (7.19%) Business Analyst
7 588 (6.86%) Project Manager
8 567 (6.62%) Consultant
9 286 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
10 266 (3.10%) Data Engineer
11 230 (2.68%) Financial Analyst
12 199 (2.32%) Senior Manager
13 183 (2.14%) Senior Developer
14 176 (2.05%) Java Developer
15 172 (2.01%) Data Analyst
16 171 (2.00%) IT Manager
17 170 (1.98%) Programme Manager
18 162 (1.89%) Accountant
19 151 (1.76%) Finance Manager
20 143 (1.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (4.04%) Terraform
2 344 (4.01%) REST
3 255 (2.98%) .NET
4 236 (2.75%) Kafka
5 229 (2.67%) React
6 217 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
7 171 (2.00%) Middleware
8 168 (1.96%) Spring
9 166 (1.94%) Spring Boot
10 129 (1.51%) PySpark
11 120 (1.40%) RESTful
12 90 (1.05%) OAuth
13 87 (1.02%) JSON
14 85 (0.99%) XML
15 82 (0.96%) Redux
16 81 (0.95%) SOAP
17 73 (0.85%) Node.js
18 72 (0.84%) HTML
19 70 (0.82%) AngularJS
19 70 (0.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 482 (5.63%) Onboarding
2 453 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 412 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 243 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 222 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 209 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 185 (2.16%) AI Agents
8 182 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
9 176 (2.05%) Virtual Team
10 173 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 167 (1.95%) Derivative
12 160 (1.87%) Data Centre
13 147 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 143 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
15 121 (1.41%) Fixed Income
16 115 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
17 107 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
18 101 (1.18%) Equities
19 97 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
20 94 (1.10%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 353 (4.12%) Windows
2 284 (3.31%) Linux
3 143 (1.67%) Unix
4 83 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 56 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 36 (0.42%) Android
9 31 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 30 (0.35%) Solaris
10 30 (0.35%) zOS
11 11 (0.13%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.13%) VMS
12 10 (0.12%) AIX
13 7 (0.082%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.070%) HPUX
14 6 (0.070%) SUSE
15 5 (0.058%) CentOS
16 4 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,374 (27.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,797 (20.97%) Agile
3 1,167 (13.62%) AI
4 1,164 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
5 1,152 (13.45%) Migration
6 1,021 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,001 (11.68%) CI/CD
8 974 (11.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 908 (10.60%) Analytics
10 892 (10.41%) DevOps
11 849 (9.91%) Decision-Making
12 813 (9.49%) ERP
12 813 (9.49%) Roadmaps
13 767 (8.95%) Validation
14 703 (8.20%) Project Management
15 665 (7.76%) Data Modelling
16 646 (7.54%) Change Management
17 636 (7.42%) User Acceptance Testing
18 622 (7.26%) Risk Management
19 594 (6.93%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,191 (13.90%) SQL
2 1,086 (12.68%) Python
3 574 (6.70%) Java
4 343 (4.00%) C#
5 264 (3.08%) PowerShell
6 239 (2.79%) JavaScript
7 211 (2.46%) TypeScript
8 142 (1.66%) Bash
9 99 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 80 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 60 (0.70%) C++
12 58 (0.68%) T-SQL
13 56 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 55 (0.64%) Bicep
15 49 (0.57%) Korn
16 45 (0.53%) Go
17 38 (0.44%) Scala
18 35 (0.41%) VBA
19 34 (0.40%) Kotlin
20 32 (0.37%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 677 (7.90%) Security Cleared
2 668 (7.80%) Degree
3 476 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 250 (2.92%) PMP
5 215 (2.51%) PMI Certification
6 196 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 181 (2.11%) ACCA
8 159 (1.86%) CIMA
9 131 (1.53%) CISSP
10 128 (1.49%) DV Cleared
11 122 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 110 (1.28%) Azure Certification
13 74 (0.86%) AWS Certification
13 74 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
14 70 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 65 (0.76%) CISM
16 48 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 45 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 38 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 37 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 629 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 374 (4.37%) QA
3 318 (3.71%) PMO
4 188 (2.19%) GDPR
5 130 (1.52%) NIST
6 112 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 104 (1.21%) GRC
8 98 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 92 (1.07%) IFRS
10 87 (1.02%) SLA
11 62 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 53 (0.62%) ISO 20022
13 45 (0.53%) GAAP
14 40 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 32 (0.37%) SEPA
15 32 (0.37%) Solvency II
16 27 (0.32%) COBIT
17 24 (0.28%) MiFID
18 19 (0.22%) Basel III
18 19 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 229 (2.67%) Docker
2 226 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 84 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 27 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.29%) vSphere
7 20 (0.23%) RACF
8 16 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.12%) NFS
12 8 (0.093%) IAG
13 5 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.047%) ACF2
14 4 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.035%) GPFS
15 3 (0.035%) KVM
15 3 (0.035%) Time Sharing Option
16 2 (0.023%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 407 (4.75%) Kubernetes
2 166 (1.94%) Ansible
3 82 (0.96%) Grafana
4 79 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 62 (0.72%) SCCM
6 60 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 59 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (0.30%) Control-M
9 24 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 19 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (0.19%) Argo
12 14 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
13 12 (0.14%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.12%) HP ALM
14 10 (0.12%) Packer
14 10 (0.12%) Tivoli
15 9 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.093%) Istio
16 8 (0.093%) Kustomize
16 8 (0.093%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,264 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 730 (8.52%) Oracle
3 672 (7.84%) SAP
4 332 (3.87%) ServiceNow
5 316 (3.69%) Databricks
6 215 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 204 (2.38%) Google
8 168 (1.96%) IBM
9 131 (1.53%) Workday
10 130 (1.52%) VMware
11 114 (1.33%) Cisco
12 105 (1.23%) Splunk
13 80 (0.93%) CyberArk
14 79 (0.92%) OpenAI
15 66 (0.77%) Ariba
16 55 (0.64%) Bloomberg
17 51 (0.60%) Murex
18 50 (0.58%) Citrix
19 49 (0.57%) Red Hat
20 47 (0.55%) Sage